"Taxes that don't get paid..." Apple, the artful dodger, has made so much money from American consumers during the recession that it's had to store profits in Ireland to avoid paying its fair share of taxes. Apple "has done nothing illegal," CEO Tim Cook claimed before the Senate in 2012. But it pays a lower rate of taxes than smaller companies do. It gets away with the practice because no one thought it was necessary to pass a law to prevent its tax-avoidance maneuvering,

"I am not surprised at Facebook doing this, and I think it's clear, or shoudl be quite clear, that their agreement with users allows this kind of thing. Anyway, it's clear these social network for-profit corporations employ algorithms filtering what we see in "timelines" and other so-called such views; that's one reason I don't see why users keep those filters/algorithms on and don't just use the raw stream."

As InformationWeek Government readers were busy firming up their fiscal year 2015 budgets, we asked them to rate more than 30 IT initiatives in terms of importance and current leadership focus. No surprise, among more than 30 options, security is No. 1. After that, things get less predictable.